Next Step after fiance Visitors Visa got rejected

[sherman123]

Hi

My fiancé's visitor visa got rejected on the basis of not having strong ties to her home country. I am a Canadian citizen and she is an Indian citizen living in the UAE. We are getting married at the end of the year in the India. The ultimate goal is for us to travel back together after the wedding.

Should I re-apply for a visitors visa before the wedding?
Should I apply for visitor visa after I apply for the spousal sponsorship?
Can my fiancé apply for a study permit or a work permit?

Please advise.
Thank you

 

[spousalsponsee]

Hi

My fiancé's visitor visa got rejected on the basis of not having strong ties to her home country. I am a Canadian citizen and she is an Indian citizen living in the UAE. We are getting married at the end of the year in the India. The ultimate goal is for us to travel back together after the wedding.

Should I re-apply for a visitors visa before the wedding?
Should I apply for visitor visa after I apply for the spousal sponsorship?
Can my fiancé apply for a study permit or a work permit?

Please advise.
Thank you

Travelling back together after the wedding is very unlikely to happen. She was refused a visitor visa because her ties to India weren't strong enough. By the time you next apply, the only difference will be that her ties to India have weakened (as she will then have a Canadian husband).

If she has a genuine interest in studying in Canada, she can try applying for a study permit - she'd need to prove she could pay international fees, and living costs upfront, and would be quite likely to be refused (for same reason she was refused a visitor permit). If she wants a work permit, that would take months of a business proving they couldn't hire a Canadian to do the job that she could do.

Really, what you want to do is get married, and then begin applying for her spousal sponsorship.

 

[sherman123]

Thank you for your prompt reply. It is kind a of disappointing that her visitor visa got rejected.
Would the rejection of the visitor visa have any impact on the spousal sponsorship? Any idea what the processing time would be if she is in Dubai. ?

Worse comes to worse, I am thinking of moving there to be with her till she gets her PR.